My Life as a Literacy Educator

Today one of my district technology representatives came to my campus to teach my students (and me) how to  It turns out that most of...

Word Wizard is an unexpected success! The first day back from winter break, I presented the idea. By the second day, I was in shock.  Whe...

In my ongoing battle for students to absorb vocabulary, I have found a technique that I have very   slowly begun mentioning to my students: ...

In the eleven and a half years that I have been teaching, I have had three students die during or after high school - one from a drowning, t...

I have discovered my favorite thing with Notice and Note : it goes with everything! I had been planning on teaching The Giver this year, as...

I have a student who is well below grade level. I knew him from last year, and I knew that he was prone to acting out, especially when not u...

In Part I , I discussed my writing lesson using the vocabulary words plausible and preposterous , with the addition of the word there , usin...